“Oh, ok.” Yu Yin stepped out. Immediately, he saw the child crouching by the shoe cabinet to watch the police officers collecting evidence. “Yu, I’m done.” He pulled off his gloves as he walked over, and after giving the police officer a heads-up, walked out.

Yu immediately stood up and blinked at him.

“Student that was ganged up on.” Yan Si quickly followed out to pa.s.s over a key and a large wad of bills. “It seems that the food delivery is here. I’ll come down after looking at the cabinet from just now. Help me open the door and receive the lunch first.”

“Does the change count towards my tip?” Yu Yin joked as he accepted the key and wad of cash while he dragged Yu over to the elevator and pressed the b.u.t.ton.

“If there’s any left over, no problem.”

Yan Si told him.

***

Yu Yin soon figured out why Yan Si had said it that way.

After paying for the food delivery at the door, he tossed the mere 30 yuan in coins left in his hand as he truly realised just how expensive this restaurant was.

But there was a large amount of food. The delivery person just now had even mentioned that there were several portions of dessert, which made Yu Yin recall that Yan Si seemed to always stock up on sweets to enjoy.

“Yu, do you want to eat something first?” Yu Yin carried the heavy food in one hand as he pushed the door open with his body and used his injured hand to shakily remove the key. “Looks like there will be a while before he’ll time.”

Yu shook his head and walked in carrying three bags.

“You want to wait for him to eat? You’ll starve that way. Or how about eating the pudding the Director gave us first?” Having had some soup earlier at the hospital to placate his stomach, Yu Yin wasn’t actually very hungry.

Yu contemplated for a while before nodding.

“Alright. You can just put your bags on top of the shoe cabinet by the door, and we can ask Yan Si later about what to do with the clothes.” Yu Yin kicked his shoes off before entering the now familiar home. With the food in hand, he headed towards the living room.

Yu looked around for a bit before staring blankly at the white shoe cabinet. There were already piles of doc.u.ments and books placed on top; would putting the bags on top directly be okay?

The bag was still damp, and he wasn’t sure if he should take out the book inside to dry a bit.

He worried that if he didn’t, he would have to reimburse the book.

After thinking this over, he decided to take the book out to dry after all; if he left it inside the bag, it would end up destroyed from the wetness.

Just as Yu had pulled out the first book, he heard a noise.

It was the half-m.u.f.fled ding of the elevator’s arrival from outside the door. Following that was the sound of the elevator doors slowly opening.

He very naturally stood up to open the front door and glanced outside at the elevator doors that had yet to close, despite n.o.body being present.

He was pretty sure that when they had first exited the elevator, it had stopped at this floor and hadn’t moved.

Yu walked out the door and stared at the open elevator.

The three walls of mirrors on the inside reflected endless reverted images, as if it was the corridor leading to another world. It was also abnormally silent.

Then, a person appeared amidst the multiple mirrors and waved at him.

In that moment, Yu suddenly remembered something, a matter that he had only just now recalled.

He remembered what he had seen that very first time he had been in this elevator.